Why Has The Us Been Shipping Muslim Extremist Schoolbooks Into Afghanistan…for 20 Years?

The Jihad Schoolbook Scandal…
Why has the US been Shipping Muslim Extremist Schoolbooks into Afghanistan…for 20 Years?
And why is President Bush hiding it?
By Jared Israel
[Posted 9 April 2002]
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Have you heard about the Afghan Jihad schoolbook scandal?
Or perhaps I should say, “Have you heard about the Afghan Jihad schoolbook scandal that’s waiting to happen?”
Because it has been almost unreported in the Western media that the US government shipped, and continues to ship, millions of Islamist textbooks into Afghanistan. (Islamist
Only one English-speaking newspaper we could find has investigated this issue: the Washington Post. The story appeared March 23rd. (1)
Washington Post investigators report that during the past twenty years the US has spent millions of dollars producing fanatical schoolbooks, which were then distributed in Afghanistan.
“The primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then [i.e., since the violent destruction of the Afghan secular government in the early 1990s] as the Afghan school system’s core curriculum. Even the Taliban used the American-produced books…” — Washington Post, 23 March 2002 (1)
According to the Post the U.S. is now “…wrestling with the unintended consequences of its successful strategy of stirring Islamic fervor to fight communism.”
So the books made up the core curriculum in Afghan schools. And what were the unintended consequences? The Post reports that according to unnamed officials the schoolbooks “steeped a generation in [Islamist] violence.”
How could this result have been unintended? Did they expect that giving fundamentalist schoolbooks to schoolchildren would make them moderate Muslims?
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Let’s be reasonable
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Nobody with normal intelligence could expect to distribute millions of violent Islamist schoolbooks without influencing school children towards violent Islamism. Therefore one would assume that the unnamed US officials who, we are told, are distressed at these “unintended consequences” must previously have been unaware of the Islamist content of the schoolbooks.
But surely someone was aware. The US government can’t write, edit, print and ship millions of violent, Muslim fundamentalist primers into Afghanistan without high officials in the US government approving those primers.
So if the books weren’t supposed to be Islamist, that is if their fanatical content contradicted US policy in Afghanistan, shouldn’t the mass media and top politicians, such as President George Bush, now be calling for an investigation? Shouldn’t they be demanding to know the identity of the official or officials who subverted the intended US policy by flooding Afghanistan with jihad primers?
Indeed, considering the disastrous consequences, shouldn’t US officials and the media be questioning the very practice of violating the sovereignty of other countries by distributing millions of Islamic fundamentalist schoolbooks?
Yet using the media search engine, Lexis-Nexis, we could find no evidence that any mainstream Western newspaper, other than the Washington Post, nor any TV station or government leader ever questioned, let alone denounced, the export of millions of Islamist schoolbooks to Afghanistan.
Quite the contrary.
For example here’s what the Boston Globe wrote in an article about the obstacles to education in Afghanistan, a year after the US invasion:
“The obstacles to accomplishing that goal are enormous. What few schools impoverished Afghanistan once had – about 2,000 – are now all virtually destroyed, pummeled by gunfire or turned into refugee camps. Teachers here have not been paid for months, even years. Those schoolbooks that still exist are pro-Taliban screeds and deemed unusable.
– Elizabeth Neuffer in the Boston Globe, March 17, 2002 (1A)
The article implies that the unusable textbooks were produced by and for the Taliban – “pro-Taliban screeds.” The author, Elizabeth Neuffer, is the Globe’s UN Bureau Chief. Surely she must know that the textbooks in question were made in USA and that the US is continuing to ship Islamist textbooks into Afghanistan. Instead of exposing the scandal that the US promotes Muslim fanaticism in Afghanistan, she misrepresents the books and misleads her readers.
Other newspapers spun more elaborate lies. Here is the Daily Telegraph from Sydney, Australia:
[Daily Telegraph Excerpt starts here]
“AFGHAN children ran, skipped and dawdled to their classrooms like pupils everywhere yesterday for the start of a new school year — with girls and women teachers back in class and subjects like math replacing the Islamic dogma of the Taliban.
“In a symbolic break from a war-scarred past, children opened new textbooks written by Afghan scholars based at universities in the US.
“There are even pictures of people — images banned by the fundamentalist Taliban.”
- The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), March 25, 2002 (1B)
[Daily Telegraph Excerpt ends here]
By beginning the article with the irrelevant but cheery image – “Afghan children ran, skipped and dawdled…[etc].” – the Telegraph prepares us for an upbeat news experience. We are not disappointed. We are told that in the new textbooks:
“There are even pictures of people — images banned by the fundamentalist Taliban.”
Again we get the impression that the Taliban were responsible for the bad old texts but due to the US invasion “children opened new textbooks…”.
Unfortunately, as the Washington Post investigators reported:
“Even the Taliban used the American-produced books, though the radical movement scratched out human faces in keeping with its strict fundamentalist code.” — Washington Post, March 23, 2002
Other than their objections to the human face, the Taliban were perfectly happy with the US-produced primers.
As if presenting evidence of a sea change, the Telegraph tells that now Afghan children have schoolbooks “written by Afghan scholars based at universities in the US.”
Similarly, an article five weeks earlier in the Omaha World-Herald declares that, “Afghanistan stands at least a chance of hauling a modern, healthy society up out of the ashes of war and oppression,” partly because University of Nebraska at Omaha “officials and staffers” will be “cranking up their presses in neighboring Pakistan” to churn out schoolbooks, all funded by “a $ 6.5 million grant from the U.S. Agency for International Development [AID].” (1C)
Neither newspaper mentions that the bad *old* schoolbooks “were developed in the early 1980s under an AID grant to the University of Nebraska-Omaha and its Center for Afghanistan Studies.” — Washington Post, March 23, 2002)
What about the US government? Have any US congressmen demanded an investigation to find out who in the US government was involved in the production of jihad primers that “steeped a generation in [Islamist] violence”?
No they have not.
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Speaking of forked tongues…
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What about George Walker Bush?
You may recall that George and Laura Bush have made passionate speeches denouncing Islamic fundamentalism. At first Mr. Bush told us we needed to attack Afghanistan in order to stop Mr. bin Laden. But later on he and Laura Bush told us we were fighting to crush the vicious fundamentalists.
Has George Bush said anything about the textbooks?
Yes, Mr. Bush talked about the jihad primers in a March 16th radio broadcast. He held nothing back:
“And before the end of the year, we’ll have sent almost 10 million of them [that is, new textbooks] to the children of Afghanistan. These textbooks will teach tolerance and respect for human dignity *instead of indoctrinating students with fanaticism and bigotry*.” — My emphasis – Radio Broadcast, March 16, 2002 (1D)
Note the phrase, “instead of indoctrinating students with fanaticism and bigotry.”
So according to Bush, Afghan school children won’t have to contend with bad schoolbooks anymore because finally the US has taken charge, replacing those other guys, those evil educators who published textbooks “indoctrinating students with fanaticism and bigotry.”
The amazing thing is not only that he tells such total lies but that he delivers them with such righteous indignation.
What about the new textbooks? Will they “teach tolerance and respect for human dignity” as Honest George promises?
To be precise (which may be unwise in today’s world) how will the new textbooks that George Bush Junior is shipping into Afghanistan differ from the old ones? You know, those old books that were also designed at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and paid for by the US government agency, AID? You know, those old, un-American books that George Bush Junior attacked for “indoctrinating students with fanaticism and bigotry”? Those terrible old books that were shipped into Afghanistan by Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan and George Bush Senior?
Here’s the Washington Post again:
“On Feb. 4, [Chris Brown, head of book revision for AID's Central Asia Task Force] arrived in Peshawar, the Pakistani border town in which the textbooks were to be printed, to oversee hasty revisions to the printing plates. Ten Afghan educators labored night and day, scrambling to replace rough drawings of weapons with sketches of pomegranates and oranges, Brown said.”] – My emphasis, Washington Post, March 23, 2002
So it appears that the only change is that some violent pictures have been removed from the printing plates and some fruit has been added. There is no indication that the texts have been changed.
What does a non-fundamentalist Afghan educator think about the new schoolbooks?
“‘The pictures [in the old schoolbooks] are horrendous to school students, *but the texts are even much worse,’* said Ahmad Fahim Hakim, an Afghan educator who is a program coordinator for Cooperation for Peace and Unity, a Pakistan-based nonprofit.’”
– (My emphasis, Washington Post, March 23, 2002)
So the Untied States government is right now shipping into Afghanistan millions of Islamic Fundamentalist schoolbooks whose texts, according to a non-Fundamentalist Afghan educator, are not just “horrendous,” they are “much worse.”
Is it possible that this is all a terrible mistake? That Mr. Bush and US AID just don’t know what’s in the new schoolbooks?
Apparently not.
According to the Washington Post, the “White House defends the religious content” of the schoolbooks. And as for US AID, the Agency for International Development, which pays for the books:
‘It’s not AID’s policy to support religious instruction,’ Stratos said. ‘But we went ahead with this project because the primary purpose . . . is to educate children, which is predominantly a secular activity.’”
(– Washington Post, March 23, 2002)
So because education is predominantly secular it’s OK for the schoolbooks to be entirely fundamentalist. Likewise, since marriage is predominantly monogamous it’s OK to cheat. And since banks are predominantly places where people deposit money, it’s OK to rob a bank.
Got it?
Mr. Bush describes the texts of the old books as “indoctrinating students with fanaticism and bigotry.” But note, having been republished in the new books, these exact same texts have been reborn. Now they are “religious instruction” (says US AID) and “religious content” (says the White House). It’s a modern miracle.
Reading these news reports and statements one might feel a certain sympathy for citizens of the US and allied countries, required to hold in their minds at one time a) the conviction that Mr. Bush is sincerely fighting Islamic fundamentalism in Afghanistan and b) the knowledge that the US is spending millions of dollars to indoctrinate Afghan school children with Islamic fundamentalism.
Not to worry. This problem has been solved by the US and allied mass media, which, with the exception of the Washington Post, have never told their readers and viewers who it was that produced the old books or what it is that’s in the new ones.
Even the Washington Post has pulled its punches. For example, consider the headline of the March 23rd article, the only one that deals critically with the jihad primers.
Here’s the headline. (Headlines are quite important because with any given article, most people only read the headline.)
“From U.S., the ABC’s of Jihad; Violent Soviet-Era Textbooks Complicate Afghan Education Efforts.”
“Violent Soviet-Era textbooks.” This phrase doesn’t even make it clear that the books were shipped in by the US government! They could have been hateful *Russian* books.
And the phrase, “Complicate Afghan Education Efforts” sounds like the books are hindering current US attempts at effecting progressive change. Nobody would guess from this headline that US AID has been forcing Islamic fundamentalist texts on Afghan kids for 20 years or that they’re still importing the same texts today, minus the guns and with more fruit.
In the body of the article the Post asserts without evidence that steeping “a generation in [Islamist] violence” was an “unintended consequence” of giving Afghan children violent Islamist schoolbooks.
“Unintended consequence” is fast becoming the US Establishment’s favorite excuse for the many disasters of its foreign policy. “We didn’t know. We weren’t prepared. We used old maps. We didn’t see the train. We thought there were tanks in the refugee column. Who could have expected this to happen?” and on and on.
But does the case of the Islamist textbooks involve unintended consequences? Doesn’t it in fact appear to be deliberate policy?
In a forthcoming article we will examine other ‘unintended consequences’ of US policy in Afghanistan.
– Jared Israel

If Immigration Reform Made A Positive Impact In The 80′s, Then Why…..?

…..do some consider it a negative today? Do the people that push against it have a better plan for economic recovery?http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/vie…
The Economic Boost of Legalization
As President Obama moves to put immigration reform on the table, questions have emerged about his timing. But the more the nation delays introducing a path to legalization for the undocumented immigrants here, the longer we are without a critical foothold towards economic recovery.
Immigrants have fueled the growth and prosperity of the United States, from its inception as a nation. This is no less the case today. Studies from the University of Nebraska at Omaha to Adelphi University in Long Island have shown the net benefit of immigrant contributions—including the undocumented—to cities throughout the country.
Through legalization, that potential would be increased.
Researchers point to the effects of prior immigration reform in 1986. Then, the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) helped transition many undocumented workers out of an underground status. In the years following the Act, these workers saw their average hourly wages increase by 15 percent. Higher wages generated more city, state and federal tax revenue and more purchasing of goods and services, which created more jobs. This, during the recession of the late 1980’s and early 1990’s.
Legalization also has a broader, positive effect on the workforce. It eliminates the vulnerability of undocumented workers to employer exploitation, and thus the ability of employers to down-press wages in certain industries. And with a legalized status, immigrant workers are more likely to start businesses and make investments that economically sustain communities.

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The Economic Boost of Legalization
As President Obama moves to put immigration reform on the table, questions have emerged about his timing. But the more the nation delays introducing a path to legalization for the undocumented immigrants here, the longer we are without a critical foothold towards economic recovery.
Immigrants have fueled the growth and prosperity of the United States, from its inception as a nation. This is no less the case today. Studies from the University of Nebraska at Omaha to Adelphi University in Long Island have shown the net benefit of immigrant contributions—including the undocumented—to cities throughout the country.

Which School Should I Go To?

Choices are Seattle U and Creighton University (in Omaha)
I am planning to continue my education after college in either an MD or MD,PhD program which school would be better.
Seattle : $15,000 a year, tuition lock in
Creighton: $11,000 a year
I think i like the town of Seattle better, but i could live in Omaha too. Creighton definately is a nicer campus. U.S. News ranked both in the top 10 for their division. Creighton was number 1 and Seattle was number 7. I am going to have to take loans out which from what my research tells me has an 8% interes rate. All input is appreciated. If any of you go or have gone to these schools tell me what you think too. Thanks for the help. I need to decide by May 30.

Poker Women Definitely on the Rise

The game of poker, online and offline alike, is certainly one of today’s most popular pastimes. Millions of people from all over the world take part in an occasional poker game. While in the past playing poker required traveling to great lengths to land-based gaming facilities, nowadays all poker enthusiasts have to do in order to play is turn on their personal computers and download the online poker software. Another great distinction from the past is the fact that poker is no longer dominated by men. Poker has become available for everybody, both men and women.

Over the past several years women have certainly proved that they can play the game just as well as men, if not better! It’s been said that female poker players have a certain special quality about them. It’s a widely known that poker is about much more than just the basic rules of each poker game. A successful poker player needs to have a very developed sense of intuition. And, which of the two sexes is the gifted one when it comes to intuition? Women, of course! Intuition-based play gives female players an obvious advantage over their male counterparts.

According to online poker report, the relatively short history of female poker play has seen women scoop incredible jackpots. The richest poker prize ever awarded to a woman poker player, $1,000,000, was collected by Kathy Liebert. Actually, Liebert sports a highly impressive biography when it comes to poker. Besides being the first woman to nab such a huge jackpot, she is also the proud owner of a WSOP bracelet. Surprisingly enough, Liebert herself does not believe that there is a significant difference between male and female poker aficionados. The prominent pro was reported as saying that since poker is not a game of strength but of intelligence, both sexes have equal winning opportunities.

Another remarkable woman poker player is Annie Duke. In 2004, Duke won the $2,000 Omaha Hi/Lo Split event and was awarded her first WSOP bracelet. Later that same year, Duke won the amazing $2 million first place prize at the winner-take-all invitation only WSOP Tournament of Champions. Ironically, it was her brother top poker pro Howard Lederer who encouraged Duke to pursue her initial interest in poker and even gave her a couple of valuable tips on poker. Since then she has knocked out many top poker players, including her brother. After having proved her poker excellence, Duke now serves as a consultant for popular online poker room UltimateBet.com. On a certain occasion, Duke said that it’s a great pleasure for her to beat male poker players, especially the chauvinistic ones.

The list of successful women in poker is indeed very long. They come in different colors, sizes and speak different languages. The only attribute they share is their immense passion for the game and the challenges it poses…

Ap Us History Dual Credit Question…?

I have a 79% average in the class. It is difficult for me because I’m not interested in it! Since I’m taking dual credit and expecting to go to Creighton University in Omaha, NE, I don’t want my chances of college to be brought down because of this class average. Will this effect my college GPA in a few years? How does dual credit work?

Geico and Partners to Auction ‘geico Chopper’

CHEVY CHASE, Md., Sept. 18, 2007 – The “GEICO Chopper” – built by nationally-known motorcycle builder Rick “Big Rick” Hoffman and which is now on tour across the country – will be auctioned off online to benefit a number of children’s charities Oct. 22 – Nov. 1.

GEICO, along with PNC Bank and PricewaterhouseCoopers, last year created “Bikers for Tykes” family fun fairs to raise funds for NIH Children’s Charities, Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington, Children’s Hospital of the Kings’ Daughters in Virginia Beach and Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Tucson, Az.

Bikers for Tykes planners this year added the ‘GEICO Chopper’ online auction to the fund-raising efforts. Other items to be at auction on eBay are sports packages for the Super Bowl, the U.S. Open Tennis tournament, and NASCAR.

To view all the items on auction, go to www.ebay.com/geico.

The GEICO Chopper was unveiled at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in Omaha, Neb., during the spring and has been on tour throughout the United States at various rider events.

Bikers for Tykes family fun fairs are scheduled in the fall as follows:

• Tucson, Ariz.: Saturday, Oct. 6.

• Chevy Chase, Md.: Saturday, Oct. 13.

• Virginia Beach, Va.: Saturday, Oct. 27.

GEICO (Government Employees Insurance Company) is the fourth-largest private passenger auto insurer in the United States. It provides auto insurance coverage for more than 7 million policyholders and insures more than 12 million vehicles. GEICO, a member of the Berkshire Hathaway group of companies, is rated A++ for financial stability by A.M. Best Company. GEICO keeps its rates low by dealing directly with the customer. GEICO provides consumers with outstanding sales, service and claims capabilities on its geico.com Web site 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Consumers may also contact the company at its toll free 1-800-841-3000 number. 15 minutes could save you 15% on car insurance. For more information, go to www.geico.com.

What Is The Average Class Size At Uno? ?

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The Best Poker Players Of All Time

The best of anything is a matter of opinion and perspective, and this is absolutely true when trying to decide who are the best poker players. This also has to be broken into tournament play, cash game play, and the type of poker game. Some poker players are great in certain games like Holdem and not so great in other games. According to what is said about Chip Reese, the great poker player, many professionals think he would be the choice, even though his WSOP wins are not as prolific as Brunson, Chan, and Hellmuth. However, Reese won three WSOP tournaments before his death in 2007. In 2006, Reese won the prestigious $50,000 Buy-in Horse Tournament at the WSOP. The Horse tournament is difficult to win, as it combines several poker games in one tournament. These are Holdem, Omaha, Razz, Seven-card Stud, and Seven-card Stud Hi Low. Reese’s long time friend, Doyle Brunson, considered him one of the best poker players he ever played against. That is high praise from a player many considered the Godfather of Poker. Brunson, Hellmuth, and Johnny Chan are considered the best when it comes to playing Holdem. Hellmuth has the most wins at the WSOP at this time with eleven wins all in Holdem.

The Poker Kid, Daniel Negreanu, after a failed try at Las Vegas poker when he was 21, has come on very strong in his play in TV tournaments like the WPT and other tournaments that were TV oriented. Negreanu is also considered a very tough cash game player, unlike Hellmuth who is considered an excellent Holdem tournament player, but an average cash game player. The top cash game players are supposedly happy to see him show up for the big cash games in Vegas.

T J Cloutier, another long time opponent and friend of Doyle Brunson, has long been considered one of the best players in the poker world. His consistency is amazing in showing up at final tables. His cash game prowess has always stood him in good stead. Like Brunson, he makes few mistakes, and players who win against him are usually just a shade luckier than he was in the tournament.

One of the long time faces at final tables is the player, Dan Harrington. He made the final table two years in a row against huge fields in the WSOP. That is a testament to his skill at playing tournament poker. In one website vote, he was voted the best player of the professionals.

Some of the recent winners of the WSOP main event have become money leaders, or very high on the list of earnings due to the huge 1st place prize money. However, few if any are considered the best poker player in the world at this time. It will take several years to see if these winners were a one trick player or have the real skill to get to final tables again.

The public has little knowledge of another group of players that are extremely good players. These are the players that take a seat in some of the biggest cash games in the world. Las Vegas has long been the place to play if a player wanted to play in a poker game which had the highest stakes Almost every day, you can see some of the best cash game players play in places like the Rio, the Bellagio, or the Venetian casino. These games are not only for solid players, but also for players with ample resources to play in a game where a bad day could be well over a $100,000 loss. This play not only takes money to play, but the courage to take that level of risk on the turn of a card. These players have to live with the risk that a better hand can crack a solid hand. Many of these player-participants are only known to the cash players and are rarely seen on TV. The only place some of them have been seen is playing in the High Stakes Poker program that is now on TV. But when you watch their play, you can easily see that they do not play bad hands. It is also obvious that they are not prone to making playing mistakes or bad calls. Some of these players cannot afford to play in tournaments, as they would lose too much time and would make less money than they do in cash games. The only time you will see them is in a game like High Stakes Poker, or in a big cash game in a casino. Yet, several of them could be rated in the running for best poker player. Their play warrants it as well as their annual winnings.

Conclusions

The best poker players of all time come down to personal choice and perception. Most of the well-known names in the current poker scene have shown they know how to play very well. Current old timers remember some of the old time players as the best they ever played against. The problem is most people never saw them play. Stu Unger was a kid when he first won the WSOP two years in a row. His play was the best, say the players who tried to beat him. Unfortunately for him, he was a drug addict and addicted to other forms of gambling like sports betting and horses. He disappeared from play after his second win, and when he came back for a third try, he won again. Three tries in the WSOP and three wins. That is an amazing record. The question that still goes unanswered is how good would he have been if he had taken care of himself and lived a less wild life. His talent was at a level that most players only dream about. His name has to be considered when discussing the best poker players. His mental skills were genius level as was his card playing skill. His weakness was his drug addiction. Make your own choice as to the best poker player. Your pick is as good as most.

Im A Freshmen In High School Right Now…… My G.p.a Is A 3.44 Will That Get Me A Full Scholorship??? ?

i want to go to university of nebraska omaha what are the admission requirements?? is it hard to get into?

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